Wicked is shaping up to be the gayest theater-going event of the year. Starring divas like Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo alongside gay superstars like Jonathan Bailey and Bowen Yang, all to bring one of Broadway’s most legendary musicals to the silver screen? What’s not love?

Well, according to Elphaba herself (aka Erivo), the fan response to the movie and its advertising isn’t what she’d hoped for.

On her Instagram story, Erivo posted a response to a recent slew of fanmade posters, which edited one of the movie’s official promos to be more similar to the original Broadway poster. In doing so, Erivo’s eyes were covered by the shadow of her hat, seemingly leading to the controversial post.

“This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen, equal to that awful Ai of us fighting, equal to people posing the question ‘is your ***** green,” Erivo wrote while sharing the fanmade poster. “None of this is funny. None of this is cute. It degrades me. It degrades us.”

“The original poster is an ILLUSTRATION. I am a real life human being, who chose [to] look right down the barrel of the camera to you, the viewer …because, without words we communicate with our eyes,” she continued. “Our poster is an homage not an imitation, to edit my face and hide my eyes is to erase me. And that is just deeply hurtful.”

Cynthia Erivo’s Instagram story. Via @cynthiaerivo.

While it’s understandable to be upset that fans had hidden Erivo’s face, folks across the internet couldn’t help but feel she was overreacting.

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Some fans even pointed out that Erivo had previously shared a fanmade meme of herself based on the poster.

Others came to Erivo’s defense, saying she’s entitled to her own opinion, especially when it comes to manipulated images of herself being spread online.

Meanwhile, X user @midosommar, the fan who had originally made the edit, still quickly took it down from social media after Erivo’s post. “My initial intent with the poster was not malicious in any way – it was an edit I made in 10 mins to pay homage to the original poster and had no intention of it blowing up like it did,” they wrote in a post. “I deleted the original post out of respect for Cynthia.”

Regardless of any discourse, fans are still hyped to see Wicked when it hits theaters on November 22. Check out the latest trailer below.

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